That's interesting. I saw the contest they were having a week or two back, and don't remember this as one of the entries. I'm not calling shenanigans or anything, but I am curious about it. Of course, I could have just seen it and forgotten it, as I have the memory of a goldfish. Also, I have the memory of a goldfish.
I wonder if this will catch on faster domestically or internationally. I'm thinking of the curious divide in Japan between the domestic use of the 円 kanji for Yen and the international ¥ symbol.
For some reason this brings back memories of the "austral", the Argentinian currency from the eighties. Had its own symbol and everything - too bad it wasn't available in any computer or typewriter.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_peso#Austral.2C_1985.E2.80.931991" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_peso#Austral.2C_1985....</a><p>I think only newspapers had the means to print that symbol non-lamely. For the rest of us, it was capital "A", backspace, equal sign. That was on a typewriter, of course. Don't remember which hack we used when trying to write the symbol on a text processor.<p>Later on, the zeroes started piling up again (hyperinflation will do that to your currency) and they went back to the "peso" with the more sensible "$" sign.<p>Found an image of the symbol:<p><a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Argentine_austral" rel="nofollow">http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Argentine_austral</a>
Interesting. Looks very pretty but also time consuming to draw - 4 lines and not particularly easy transitions between them. I'll hazard a guess that people will naturally evolve a stripped down version of it for common usage.
I can't help but think that surely there's better problems to solve. I don't get what's wrong with either INR or Rs - neither of which require a new keyboard.
Anyone see any resemblances to: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_and_hammer" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_and_hammer</a> ?<p>Not that I mind at all.